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Synonyms: Verb
doff, douse, peel (off), put off, shrug off, take off
Synonyms: Noun
distance, lead, length, spacing, spread, stretch, way
Antonyms: Verb
don, put on, slip (into), throw (on)
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Examples of remove in a Sentence
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Remove the trash from the front yard. My tonsils were removed when I was five years old. Trees help to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These new findings should remove any doubt about his innocence. What's a good way to remove stains from a silk dress? The new law would remove obstacles to obtaining a work permit. He was removed from office.Noun
She thrives when she's at some remove from mainstream society. their farm is just a remove of two miles from the town center
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Two environmental engineering companies have removed hundreds of gallons of water from the storm sewer in two areas, and the water will be tested. — chicagotribune.com, "Fires at 2 Wisconsin substations knock out power to more than 13,000 customers on sweltering day," 19 July 2019 Just grab a bottle of ketchup and gently rub the surface with a clean cloth, then remove the ketchup with a slightly damp cloth. — Heloise, Washington Post, "Hints From Heloise: The Social Security scam," 19 July 2019 Belle Delphine, a social media star who recently made headlines for selling her bath water to fans, has had her Instagram account removed. — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, "Belle Delphine, Internet star who sold her bath water, has Instagram account deleted," 19 July 2019 Authorities have said the women lured Ochoa-Lopez to their home on April 23, strangled her and then removed her baby. — Phil Helsel, NBC News, "Mom, daughter accused of killing woman, cutting baby from womb face new charges," 19 July 2019 Cut the peaches in half, remove the pit, and slice. — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, "Massively popular peach truck coming back to metro Detroit: Where to find it," 18 July 2019 With those constraints removed in space, the company can look to fill some of the gaps in what is known about spherical aerodynamics. — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, "SpaceX is sending dozens of crucial science experiments to the ISS — and Nickelodeon slime," 18 July 2019 Duties will include removing non-native plants, maintaining trails, and planting and watering. — Daily Pilot, "Around Town: Ziggy Marley and Pat Benatar among Pacific Amphitheatre concerts in the next week," 18 July 2019 To prepare larger, shell-on shrimp: Take each raw shrimp, peel off the shell beginning at the small end near the tail, leaving on the fan of final tail shells, working your way through to the larger end, removing all the shell. — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, "Shrimp is a natural for grilling," 17 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
From the safe remove of a viewing stand atop a concrete bunker—that happened to serve as the firing room next to the pad from which John Glenn was launched in 1962—the test rocket was barely visible, more than 2.1 miles away. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, "With NASA's Orion Abort-System Test, Americans Just Took a Small (and Very Big) Step Closer to the Moon," 2 July 2019 In Juliet the Maniac, Escoria interrupts the main first-person narrative with archival documents and flash-forwards that allow her to recount Juliet’s struggles with bipolar disorder from a slight remove. — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, "Two Novels That Make Mental Illness Legible," 22 June 2019 Does the family, in its remove from society, represent the apex of civilization, or a pathetic aberration? — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, "Behind the High Walls," 10 Feb. 2019 Great literature places us at a remove from life, letting us appreciate Victor and Walter as flawed human beings—and see ourselves in them both. — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, "Arthur Miller’s ‘Everyman’ Is an Antidote to Identity Politics," 22 Feb. 2019 Though the number of villas will eventually grow to 72, new trees have been strategically planted among the existent coconut grove in order to give each one a feeling of remove. — Ella Riley-adams, Vogue, "Why India’s Andaman Islands Could Be the New Maldives," 4 Jan. 2019 The more crops you plant, burn, and sequester, the more carbon dioxide your remove from the air. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, explained," 24 Oct. 2018 What McHugh favored was the fantastic, the caustic, the nakedly human, art with an irreverent or whimsical sense of humor, and art with little remove from raw physicality. — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, "This Candy Store wasn't a candy store: Remembering a California gallery that made art stars," 3 July 2018 Though Gabaldon wrote Claire as a character whose face betrays her every emotion, Balfe always played the part at a slight remove, with an aloof dignity betrayed only when Claire decides to speak her mind. — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, "Caitriona Balfe Is Evolving with Outlander," 31 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'remove.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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Note: Section 1441 et seq. of title 28 of the U.S. Code allows a defendant who is brought into a state court to remove the action to federal district court when diversity of citizenship exists, when the action involves a claim or right arising under the U.S. Constitution or under laws or treaties of the U.S., or when the defendant is a foreign country or its agency or instrumentality. Civil actions and criminal prosecutions brought against an officer or agency of the U.S. for any act under color of office may also be removed.
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